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How the World's Vineyards Were Saved

The Botanist and the Vintner examines wines greatest crisis

By Kim Marcus

The biological costs of the European conquest of the New World are well-known, the most devastating of them being diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis and malaria, which decimated the defenseless .....

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